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The other part of Christian questions and answers which is concerning the sacraments, writ[n]…The other parte of Christian questions and answeares which is concerning the sacraments, writte[n]…
The other part of Christian questions and answers which is concerning the sacraments, writ[n] by Theodore Beza Vezelian: to which is added a large table of the same questions. Translated out of Latin into English by John Field.The other parte of Christian questions and answeares which is concerning the sacraments, writte[n] by Theodore Beza Vezelian: to which is added a large table of the same questions. Translated out of Latine into Englishe by Iohn Field.
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Thomas Woodcocke, 1580
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
237. Question.
But I did think that a place was not the essence or substance of the body.
But I did thinke that a place was not the essence or substance of the bodie.
Answer. So the Sophisters trifle. Neither do we say, that a place is the matter of the body, but placing as I may say necessarily and in it self is proper too bodies: Neither do we then consider the body as the matter, but as the quantity. Therefore Augustine speaking very well of the glorified body of Christ it self, If it be a body (saith he,) then is it in a place. And take away spaces from the bodies, and they shall be no bodies. But let us proceed. ⟨image 158⟩He taketh away the limitation of place, which contendeth that one and the self same body can be every where and in many places at once properly. This every one doeth, which teacheth either that this bread is proper by the body of our Lord, or in very deed will have it to be present, in, with, or under the bread, and to be given too the outward senses in as many places as the Supper of the Lord is celebrated. Therefore. &c. I know that many flee unto the distinction of a body supernatural, certain also unto that common starting hole of the omnipotency of God. But to what end serves this? For the natural, general, and essential form, by which every body is a body, being taken away it shall follow, that that body ceaseth to be a body, from which that same essential form of a body is taken away, & they play the Sophisters: which reason from the accidental properties to the essential, of which matter